PEDRICKTOWN, N.J. -- "The state's Department of Environmental
Protection has agreed to permit an NL Industries plant here to resume operations under certain conditions after shutting it
down last Friday, a department official said today..."

New York, N.Y. -- There are many things
Patricia Burstein loves about her apartment at 40 Central Park South, including leaving it on weekends. "Because it is
dark. Because she is tired of finding out whether or not it is sunny from the reflection on the windows of the Park Lane Hotel.
"I feel like a giraffe..."

New Canaan,
Conn. -- "Linda Krenicki, 15 years old, sat alone on one side of the New Canaan High School cafeteria, where the prevailing
smell was of chicken and spaghetti. "It's pointless to sit over there," she said, "nodding toward the other
side of the cafeteria, where a faint blue-gray cloud of cigarette smoke hovered over 200 students. "It's gross,"
Linda said, "the smoke, the smoke, the butts..."

Bronxville, N.Y. -- In the vestibule of the
Bronxville High School cafeteria, a 16-year-old Bronxvile Broncos cheerleader took a long strong drag on a cigarette, blew
out a mess of smoke, tugged at her jacket until it covered the big B and bucking-bronco emblem on her uniform, crossed her
feet until her brown and white saddle shoes cuddled each other, and giggled. "We're not suppsoed to smoke in uniform,"
she said. "It's a school rule; it's the school reputation. And if we do, we're supposed to cover up the emblem.
We're not supposed to let a teacher see us smoke in uniform and we're not supposed to smoke during a game."

But out of uniform, 10th, 11th, and 12th -grade Bronxville students
are allowed to smoke in a designated courtyard on school grounds and when the weather is bad in a small...

There
are times when Kathy DiGiovanna feels as if she's living beneath Grand Central Station. They are the times when her children
are riding a 16-foot-long, two-foot-high, four-car train on a 50-foot circular track -- in her attic.

"The attic holds the whole history of the house, in a way," said Mrs.
DiGiovanna

THE CHARACTERS: The Mother. The Father. The
Babysitter, age 16. The Daughter, age 6. Scene One -- The Mother and Father on the front seat of a car on the Merritt Parkway
early Saturday Night.

The Mother: "Did
you think that girl is O.K., Hubert? Did you see those records she brought? She had the Beatles' white album. Hubert they
listen to that album loud. If Amy starts crying she's not going to her her. I'm calling the house as soon as we get
to the Newtons."

A newcomer's confusion with a sprawling
campus is usually eased as he grows accustomed to guideposts -- mainly other buildings. "If that's Fayerweather Hall,
this must be Avery," he learns. But should he meander through the new extension to the Graduate School of Architecture
and Planning at Columbia University after it opes this fall, he may find himself repeatedly asking the question, " Where
am I now?"